Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2505]

Poetry and Elegant Prose.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2505 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 829 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

829.

2505.Size 8 in. by 6 in.; foll. 154. About twenty lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-68. The Dîwân of ‘AFÎF AL-DÎN Sulaimân b. ‘Alî TILIMSÂNÎ, the Ṣûfî (d. A.H. 690).Cf. Catal. Mus. Brit. 292 sq., the Ḥ. Kh. iii. 297.

It is arranged alphabetically. Begins: منعتها الصفات و الاسماء

Not very clearly written. The diacritical points are often omitted, but the ‘‘unpointed’’ letters are frequently marked. The titles are written in yellow.

The copy was made for Wajîh al-dîn… 1

II.Foll. 69-100. Religious and Mystic Poems by various authors, such as IBN al-FÂRIḌ (d. A.H. 632), JA’BARÎ (Burhân al-dîn Ibrâhîm b. ‘Omar, d. A.H. 732), ‘ABD AL-LAṬÎF BAKRÎ, etc. Many of the poems are anonymous.

III.Foll. 101-142. The Poems of ḤÂJIRÎ (Ḥusâm al-dîn ‘Îsa b. Sanjar b. Bahrâm Irbilî, d. A.H. 632), collected and arranged in seven books, by ‘Omar b. Muḥammad Dimishḳî. See Cat. Lugd. ii. 68, and Ḥ. Kh. iii. 271. The collection is here entitled مسارح الغزلان الحاجرية.

Written in a small hand, resembling that of the preceding piece. Headings in yellow and red.

IV. Foll. 143-150. A fragment of a Poetical Collection. Many of the poems contained in it are of the kind called تخميس .

Written like the preceding piece.

The remaining leaves of the volume are filled with various poems, which were added from time to time, by different hands.

Fol. 116 is a stray leaf, which does not belong to any of the above collections.

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]

1 The rest of the name is erased.